The Wasatch Front could have a new music festival venue in the near future if a local committee agrees to create it. In early July, members of the Point of the Mountain State Land Authority (POMSLA) voted unanimously to approve a conceptual campus application for a...
To build or not to build — that is the question. As Salt Lake City’s multifamily market continues to see essentially flat rent growth and concessions to renters that will likely continue into the coming months, developers face the tough call of deciding whether now's...
As it prepares to go vertical later this year, Draper’s The Point is now turning its sights to a new aspect of the roughly 600-acre redevelopment. The Point announced earlier this week it was issuing a Request for Statement of Qualifications (RFSQ) for its River...
Ask any urbanist around the Wasatch Front, and they’ll say that car-centric design and infrastructure are the norm outside Salt Lake City. Portions of the Jordan River Trail and pockets around the county are known for providing more options for travel. Outside that,...
Years of planning for a sweeping redevelopment effort in Draper could make way for vertical construction later this year. Horizontal construction at The Point — the state’s massive redevelopment effort of over 600 acres on the former Utah State Prison site — first...
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The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has released the final study update on the Point of the Mountain transit project. It marks the end of a seven-year effort to determine better transit connectivity between the Draper and Lehi geographic chokepoint, known...
One of the largest commercial real estate firms in the state was recently named in a lawsuit accusing brokers of misleading elderly investors and violating securities laws. The lawsuit, filed in Utah’s federal court in early March, accuses Colliers and other...
As the woes of the office market continue to populate CRE headlines nationwide, cut-rate building sales and 25% availability rates are raising fewer eyebrows these days. When we last reported on the Salt Lake City metro market’s performance a year ago, vacancy rates...
A Utah House committee punted on two bills that its sponsor believes would help address the state’s ongoing housing shortage, despite support from the governor's office. The bills, HB 88 and HB 90, were presented to the Utah House Political Subdivisions Committee in a...
The state land authority overseeing development on the former state prison site in suburban Draper has named a new Executive Director, locking in its transition out of the planning stage and into construction. Mike Ambre, a 24-year veteran in the state’s Department of...
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